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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Little Weiner?

Can you guys help me with this pic? It just...popped up....in my email account. Apparently this cat is a lawyer or a public speaker of some kind; in the text accompanying the pic he was bragging about being a masterful cunning linguist. Oh shit...wait...that was masterful cunnilingus...my bad.

Seriously, I'm flattered and all but I'll pass on that offer. Is this like an Anthony Weiner spoof? Is somebody trying to advertise Brazilian wax jobs on AZ? That is one helluva wax job, brah...whoever the salon is who did that should at least get credit...just let me know and I'll put up a banner ad so my AZ peeps can get waxed on...and waxed off.

Ever notice how the music video is always the same regardless of the song? And at one point Mushmouth is playing a "junkyard guitar" in the wide shot, then on the next wide shot he's playing a brand spanking new electric guitar?

I"m trying to create a new language...Swahilinary. Let me know how I did.

Peace dude.

Last anon, i don't know if that's right or not...but be nice. Perhaps you have an axe to grind but don't break the grinding stone.

I have asked some in the legal community if they recognize the person in the picture, and the response has been, "Why are you looking at that?" The expression on their faces has been both concern and disgust.

No one recognizes the guy, but maybe the good folks at some other blogs can ask their readers.

I know for a fact that is Aaron Bennett. He sent pics from that same night and sent them to several dancers I know personaly. In all of them you will see no tighty whities like Old George Weiner for sure, as some of the girl's from the boat can attest he's not packing! Why else you think he advertises his Cunningliness LOL?

Anon with the stripper friends: Not packing, and passing himself off as Aaron Bennett? I can think of someone that might be. I'd prefer not to think of him, though.

Sending naked pictures of yourself to bloggers is a hard-to-miss cry for help, isn't it?

If you find out who this is for real, maybe he needs a benefit concert to pay for his shrink and his rehab?

Never mind fishermen, baby sea creatures, tornado victims, people who are being told to repay money they were "given" (after a lifetime of paying taxes and insurance) to deal with post Katrina home repairs, etc.

Drunken losers who are dumber than their phones (and it is even sadder for America if this one does have a law degree) need help, too.

Whoa, AZ. I clicked on that company bio page you linked to, and under the last guy, James Book, it listed the LSU medical complex as one of the projects he is working on.

Those guys have a piece of that business, too?

Did we already know that? Am I on the short bus again?

How is it kosher that a City Attorney got an extra pay cheque doing a "labor market study" for these people when the City Attorney's office is part of the government end of sorting out the LSU Medical complex dramas?

James Book lists the very same prisons that have come up in connection to Frank Fradella's construction businesses in his list of his projects, too.

What the fuck?

And why aren't Nagin, his City Attorneys, and in some cases their spouses, in motherfreaking jail already? This stinks to high heaven.

So what of Fradella's lawyer? His in-house lawyer, the one who caused such a firestorm here when it was revealed that she was signing things on behalf of the city's housing office while working as the agent for firms that were bidding on city jobs, and that she and her spouse had all that funky secretive action going on over at the Notorial Archives?

Her husband was featured in a newspaper story by David Hammer just as he was messing with you. It was part of his damage control.

In that story, he revealed that he had done this side business labor market study for Aaron Bennett.

That was new information, given to the press before it was outed by someone here, no doubt. But he construed this work as nothing unethical.

If he is part of the city attorney's office that handles the city's part of the LSU medical complex footprint, and connected in several different ways to the construction firms doing the work, how is that ethical? This is kleptocracy.

If Fradella folded all his business into Benetech, there is a hell of a lot of untold story here.

Did you tell it already? Do we need to dip back into your archives again before the next round of indictments?

I know you've been all over this.

I learned about the labor market study, and most of this, through your blog.

Your own archives contain information that now seems like new information to you, because there is just so much to remember.

After reading your blog, I read all the nola.com stories and the Miami business paper stories about the subcontractors and investors ripped off and fucked over by Fradella and all his people.

There were even message boards of investors talking about being scammed by him, do you recall?

They still make me mad. Little kids and real dedicated skilled trades people got ripped off and hurt.

Bennett bellying up to a "disabled veterans" trough, and some of the other players now recasting themselves as "green" (green is the new trough, replacing the tech bubble shit and the "recovery" scams)is sickening.

The endless wars were started on false pretexts by corrupt politicians.

Thousands of American veterans are coming home maimed in body and spirit, and New Orleans, bloody but unboughed after everything, is going to do a flesh trade in their woundedness. Go Tigers.

And the same fucking cadre of politially connected assholes who made such a mess to begin with is going to profit from this again?

The Bennetts and Fradellas of the world make sure to give nice fat donations to the campaigns of anyone in their path.

"Did you tell it already? Do we need to dip back into your archives again before the next round of indictments?"

"There were even message boards of investors talking about being scammed by him, do you recall? "

I do recall those facts but I didn't see it like you're describing. I know the TP asked for an opinion and the Tulane prof. said it did not constitute a conflict of interest.

I ain't no legal expert but I agree with you...I think it stinks to high hell. However, that doesn't mean it's illegal. Incestuous yes...illegal...I don't know. I didn't like any part of it when I read it but I still don't fully understand the multiple companies, their connections to city contracts and if the Chinese wall can be drawn in a husband/wife bedroom.

Honestly, what I've created with this blog is much bigger than my capacity to control. I remember facts but that doesn't mean I understand the implications or gravity of what I'm publishing. I'm not an idiot but I'm not omniscient either. I'm learning just like my readers are as well as the folks who are divulging information. I think I am simply a filter, first and foremost.

My only goal is to publish FACTS. I will take the heat on anything I publish...that's mine and I own it....my only goal is to publish truth. Even if the MSM sources try to discredit me, i.e. Richmond/con-profit/Rolex, I am still going to tell you the truth whether anyone wants to hear it or not.

I still stand by my assertion that CR bought a Rolex with non-profit funds. I'll say it to Jack Sutton's face and Cedric Richmond's face.

It is the truth "as I see it" but I can assure you I do my best to "see it".

If it's not true...and I made the mistake of publishing it...I will go to any length to correct my mistake. I'm not afraid to admit I was wrong and the TP will remind you, ad nauseam, that I've made mistakes.

My only goal with this experiment...AZ....was to see if the 1st amendment could actually work. If you just tell everyone the truth about what's going on can that simple act change the reality of a city/community? If you just own the fucker and say what everyone doesn't want to hear...can that make a change?

Now, 4 years later....I know the answer. Fuck yes. In fact, it can change the world.

Ashley knew that inherently. It's taken me a while to garner that level of courage but fuck, I think I'm there now.

Your comment struck a note in me man. I know I've missed so much in this process but it's not easy doing this shit. I was raised Catholic so I got this massive guilt complex and the only voice I can hear in my head is "NOT GOOD ENOUGH!!"

Alright, so I just hijacked your comment and got emotional....let's get back to the facts.

It's an open forum and let's air this shit out. I know the interested parties are reading this and they know they have an open mic on the issues.

I can't remember the picture well enough (since my mind and eyes are still trying to "un-see" it) but for some reason it comes to mind when the picture of the Kenner City Councilman keeps getting shown.